“The Vivo V11 Pro smartphone was launched in September 2018, and the new colour will have an initial 5 percent discount on Amazon India.”

Keeping up the spirit of smartphones in attractive, gradient colours, Vivo has launched a new colour variant of its mid-range smartphone, the V11 Pro. Late last month, 91mobiles was the first to report of this development, when a retail chain source tipped us of the upcoming launch of the new, ‘SuperNova Red’ variant of the phone. The new Vivo V11 Pro colour variant has now been launched and retains its launch price of Rs 25,990.

The latest colour shade adds to the growing number of swanky, suave gradient colour finishes on smartphones, particularly from the stables of Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo itself. The ‘SuperNova Red’ variant of the Vivo V11 Pro (review) features a lighter shade of red towards the bottom half of the phone’s rear panel, which becomes steadily darker and merges towards the blacks at the top half. This is increasingly becoming a trend in the smartphone industry, with Xiaomi recently demonstrating the intricacy of one such gradient-painted back glass panel. As part of the launch offer, the Vivo V11 Pro SuperNova Red variant will be available at a 5 percent discount, via Amazon India.

The Vivo V11 Pro was launched in September this year, and is a mid-range smartphone. Its immediate rivals in the said price bracket includes the likes of the OPPO F9 Pro, Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) and the POCO F1 (review), along with the likes of the Realme 2 Pro, Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro and others. The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, and is offered in only one combination of RAM and storage — 6GB and 64GB. The front of the smartphone gets a 6.41-inch, FullView ‘Halo’ display, featuring a waterdrop notch to accommodate the front camera. It features full HD+ (1,080 x 2,340-pixel) display resolution, and uses a Super AMOLED display panel with 19.5:9 aspect ratio.

In terms of cameras, the Vivo V11 Pro features a rear imaging setup of 12MP primary, and 5MP secondary cameras with f/1.8 lens, while the front-facing camera gets a 25MP image sensor with an f/2.0 lens. The smartphone is powered by a 3,400mAh battery pack, and runs on Android 8.1 Oreo.

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